Example sentences of "[verb] [been] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services . |
| 2 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
| 3 | Who but Gibbons has been able to reproduce in wood the precise bloom of a ripening peach , the very texture and mass of a bursting apricot , or the exact weight and trajectory of an ear of corn on its stem ? |
| 4 | In Cambridgeshire , Jack Ravensdale has been able to show from documentary references how the village plans of Cottenham , Landbeach and Waterbeach have changed and developed over the centuries . |
| 5 | Since then nobody has been able to get in touch with her . |
| 6 | But he might still have been able to stop in time if he 'd braked hard enough . |
| 7 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 8 | To counter the first fear of specialisation , ‘ disabling ’ clients is certainly not the objective of casework , and advisers must resist the personal satisfaction that they may get from acting on behalf of a client when that client may well have been able to cope with assistance alone . |
| 9 | Beaumont 's study of assisted migrants in Scotland in 1976 showed that 88 per cent of his sample said they would have wanted to move in the absence of government assistance and , even more important , 69 per cent of the sample said they would have been able to move without government assistance . |
| 10 | The USS Enterprise may have been able to go into hyperspace , but the ITN news machine was in hypertime , boldly going where no returning officers had gone before . |
| 11 | She knew only the cream would have been able to get to Teacher Training College in the first place , and so many shared her desire and enthusiasm for education . |
| 12 | THE Tories are said not to have been able to get in right in 13 years . |
| 13 | From the polytechnic , the court was told , Bedworth had been able to hack into computer systems all around the world using his microcomputer — a type found in many schools — as a master terminal . |
| 14 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 15 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 16 | Up to 1946 , Truman had been able to rely on support from both Democrats and Republicans in dealing with the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Olga and Joe had been able to go to school , though they had plenty of farm chores as well . |
| 18 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 19 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 20 | And to add to her joy , Hilda took her to meet sister Lena as the two had been able to keep in touch . |
| 21 | The only thing she had been able to think of doing was going after Lori and getting the jade back herself . |
| 22 | But on these rare occasions the frontier posts protecting Blanche 's personality had been unmanned , and Dexter had been able to wander at will through her past and her present . |
| 23 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 24 | However , the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland has increasingly been able to give some very substantial grants towards churches , ensuring that churches faced with closure because of a repairs crisis have been able to continue in use . |
| 25 | I have been able to do as Minister is to remove the spectre of listing ’ |
| 26 | Both bodies have been able to comment on draft PPGs and MPGs and have secured a number of improvements to their content . |
| 27 | They have been able to work in government service , even in the army , and there has been no need for work permits . |
| 28 | They have been able to prove without doubt that aroma has a profound influence on mind and body . |
| 29 | The only other argument that I have been able to find in support of tonight 's regulations is where the DSS states that the use of regulation 72 puts ’ an over-emphasis on the Department 's welfare role and overlooks the fact that persons acting for the claimant could have made inquiries on the claimant 's behalf . ’ |
| 30 | What , for example , is the basis for the influential role doctors have been able to play in health service policies ? |